Tommie Gorman

Retired journalist Tommie Gorman will be appearing on The Late Late Show this evening and while he had a hugely varied career with RTE particularly in ...

The damage was done and while the rest of the squad and staff moved on to Japan and South Korea - Keane hopped on a flight to Dublin. But the damage was done when friction that had built up over the years between Ireland's captain and manager reached breaking point after Keane had given an interview to the press in which he repeated some of his worries about the set-up. The Man United great felt there was too much of a lackadaisical attitude across the board in how the staff and players as a whole had a laugh about how there were no footballs as well as the training surface being substandard. Upon another viewing, it's also clear that tension had been building in the days leading up to Keane going to McCarthy with his list of concerns. Over the course of the back-and-forth, Gorman attempts to facilitate a potential compromise between Keane and manager Mick McCarthy It was a bit of a curveball that Gorman was the one who got the interview but that was largely because most if not all of the senior Irish football journalists were over on the far side of the world covering the team.